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Rats help save humans.

4 The Love Of Animals

In ancient Greece and China, if you were suspected to have tuberculosis, doctors would burn your spit with a stone or hot flame and interpret the fume’s odor.). The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). The sizeable rodents are helping to detect tuberculosis (TB). Rats help save humans.

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Chinese Give Gerbils Contraceptives to Cut Population

Critter News

Weird, but I give them credit for doing the humane thing. Forestry officials are leaving pills by the gerbils' burrows to try to cut back the rodents' exploding numbers. Tags: Gerbils china. And I don't give the Chinese much credit in this blog.

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